A Christian nation recognizes Christ as universal King. When Christ is recognized as such over every heart and home, everyone lives their life according to his precepts out of love and fear. We are not a Christian nation by any means. The so called "enlightenment" won that battle across all of western civilization. Much like Reagan said that freedom is only one generation away from being extinguished, so is the human binding to the Sacred Heart.
Christian "peace" didn't give us what we have today. A catastrophic failure to transfer traditions and truth from generation to generation did this - the standard result of decadence born of wealth and power. What good is how you got where you are, if you have so much that you can just hand over money to the next generation and forget how you got it? What use is objective morality and reverence of the Almighty when you have wealth and power? What does it matter if your daughters grow up to be harlots, if you can just sedate yourself with the wealth of the age? So on, and so forth.
It was our separation from the virtue of poverty that led to our separation from the virtue of charity, and the separation from that virtue leads to the rapid separation from the virtue of chastity, and you immediately fall in to what we see today - a mimicry of the end of the Roman Empire, and other such decadent empires.
You're not wrong. I'd argue that the deterioration of national law comes to some degree from peace (better word would be complacency) but definitely the fall of the nation is the responsibility of elders.
I don't support an easy follow-up argument that could arise claiming generational wealth is a "bad thing" (you didn't say that), but definitely people forgetting their "roots" will always lead to errant thinking, Christian or not.
A Christian nation recognizes Christ as universal King. When Christ is recognized as such over every heart and home, everyone lives their life according to his precepts out of love and fear. We are not a Christian nation by any means. The so called "enlightenment" won that battle across all of western civilization. Much like Reagan said that freedom is only one generation away from being extinguished, so is the human binding to the Sacred Heart.
Christian "peace" didn't give us what we have today. A catastrophic failure to transfer traditions and truth from generation to generation did this - the standard result of decadence born of wealth and power. What good is how you got where you are, if you have so much that you can just hand over money to the next generation and forget how you got it? What use is objective morality and reverence of the Almighty when you have wealth and power? What does it matter if your daughters grow up to be harlots, if you can just sedate yourself with the wealth of the age? So on, and so forth.
It was our separation from the virtue of poverty that led to our separation from the virtue of charity, and the separation from that virtue leads to the rapid separation from the virtue of chastity, and you immediately fall in to what we see today - a mimicry of the end of the Roman Empire, and other such decadent empires.
You're not wrong. I'd argue that the deterioration of national law comes to some degree from peace (better word would be complacency) but definitely the fall of the nation is the responsibility of elders.
I don't support an easy follow-up argument that could arise claiming generational wealth is a "bad thing" (you didn't say that), but definitely people forgetting their "roots" will always lead to errant thinking, Christian or not.